ENR

Dec 9, 2019

A joint venture of Skanska, Corman Kokosing Construction Co. and McLean Contracting Co. is moving toward an early 2020 construction start for a $463-million replacement for a 79-year-old bridge across the Potomac River, south of Washington, D.C.

Transportation Infrastructure

Skanska-Led Team Aims for Early 2020 Start on $463M Maryland Bridge

Tom Ichniowski

December 4, 2019

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Update: Other bidders were Archer Western, $498.4-million; Granite-Parsons-Middlesex, $479.1 million; and Wagman-Trumbull-Weeks, $605.6 million.

Investigations Underway After Worker Killed in Cincinnati Partial Building Collapse

Preston Todd Delph, 58, died when a section of the seventh floor of the under-construction building collapsed

Jeff Yoders

December 2, 2019

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Preston Todd Delph, 58, an employee of Gateway Concrete Forming in Miamisburg, Ohio, died after the seventh-floor of a mixed-use development on Fourth and Race streets in Cincinnati, collapsed on him November 25. OSHA and the City of Cincinnati are investigating the incident.

Number of Domestic LNG Facilities on the Rise

Pam Radtke Russell

November 29, 2019

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As mega LNG projects continue to be built, small-scale facilities are serving a need in the Midwest and Northeast.

More Tools, Green Product Picks and Goals from Greenbuild

Nadine M. Post

December 3, 2019

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The U.S. Green Building Council recently announced LEED Positive – a vision statement and LEED development roadmap that USGBC hopes will lay the foundation for a “regenerative” built environment.

Newfoundland to Canada Mainland Tunnel Gains New Government Attention

Scott Van Voorhis

December 4, 2019

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Narrowly elected Liberal party eyes the estimated $1.3B rail project, proposed for several decades, to boost economic development.

Why Did 'Fast Growing' R.F. Fisher Electrical Contractor Shut Down?

A bank that made recent loan is in federal court seeking repayment

Scott Van Voorhis

December 3, 2019

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Competitor scoops up many employees who lost jobs

Industrial and manufacturing

US Steel's Mon Valley Investment Revives Western Pennsylvania

$1-billion plant upgrade promises reversal of fortune for mill towns

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Jonathan Barnes

December 2, 2019

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Upgrades include endless casting and rolling facility at Edgar Thomson plant and co-generation plant at Clairton plant.

Fatality on I-495 Bridge Project in Mass. Raises Questions Over Proper Training

One worker dead, one seriously injured after fall from aerial lift

Johanna Knapschaefer

December 3, 2019

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A fatality on a Massachusetts bridge project has a local labor union questioning whether two union construction workers were properly trained to run the aerial lift they were operating at the time.